Lyx & Tectonic

[Dr Eberhard W Lisse]

I think the point was that tectonic can be embedded.  Which would be
really cool for LyX.

I kind of like if it could pull all packages required (only) if and when
needed, but that means you could only use it with an Internet
connection running. That's not always guaranteed.

But I have of course no clue how that would work with existing
Lua(La)TeX documents using LUA, and how this would keep the packages
from TexLive updated.

greetings, el

On 21/01/2023 20:41, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
> On 1/19/23 07:04, Saša Janiška wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> the other day I was reading about Tectonic
>> (https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/) and wonder if LyX
>> could take advantage of it?
> 
> Probably.  I would think the way to experiment with this would be to
> set up a new export format and assign tectonic as the converter for
> it.  If someone can get it to work, then we could consider shipping
> LyX with the appropriate configuration.
> 
> Riki
> 
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